It requires renegotiating the social contract that underlies education—who holds power, who earns trust, who gets to make ...

The Pareto Principle, or 80/20 rule, asserts that 80% of outcomes stem from 20% of causes. Introduced by Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who noted that 80% of Italy's land was owned by 20% of the ...

Because we’ve apparently reached the point in American politics where proposing higher taxes on wealthy people is no longer ...

A nation can count people without respecting them. It can use their numbers without hearing their voices. It can turn their ...

Empire State Democrats aren't interested in targeting districts previously protected by the Voting Rights Act.

For two years, I had the privilege of working inside one of the most thorough and transparent public processes I have seen in 25 years of practice. The Yountville Commons project, on the site of the ...

JHU mathematician Emily Riehl explains how a surprising amount of math goes into determining who ends up in the U.S. House of ...

The Supreme Court’s recent gerrymandering ruling has touched off an instantaneous demolition of Black political power as ...

So it was for the Voting Rights Act, the 1965 legislation that protected Black suffrage by neutralizing voter suppression in ...

It promised to protect open space and restore habitats within the Coastal Zone. In 1976, the Legislature turned the ...

In its 6–3 decision, the court gutted the legislation that ended apartheid in this country—and once again gave white people the ability to suppress Black political power.